My girls when teenagers loved to use that word if I ever (did I?) do anything silly 'Oh mum, you spoon' they would say, lol.

And when we had foreign students staying at my Summer school, they just loved to practise eating soup with the 'away from you' movement and tipping the bowl backwards - same with balancing peas on the top of the down-turned fork, lol. Almost as much as wobbling multi-coloured jelly. One Paris student said 'ahh looks like Britney Spears' and ever since then, jelly is called 'Britney Spears' in our family.

Those students, French, Swiss, German and Italians did stare at the antics of Leicester girls on a Saturday night - but from the safety of my car. It was always one of the favourite outings of the Summeralmost as entertaining as Alton Towers and much cheaper lol.

Those students, French, Swiss, German and Italians did stare at the antics of Leicester girls on a Saturday night - but from the safety of my car. It was always one of the favourite outings of the Summer

I can imagine. A bit like a safari park with the same warnings applying - keep windows rolled up and don't stop!

I recently moved to Zug and bought a Ferrari 458. I expect and like people looking at it, but alone I still find the Swiss staring at me. Ive had a good look in the mirror and yes I could loose a little weight and my dress sense isn't so bad, so why all the stares?

Switzerland is a beautiful country with stunning views of mountains and lakes, surely a (slightly) overweight middle aged Engishman can't be more interesting view?

I recently moved to Zug and bought a Ferrari 458. I expect and like people looking at it, but alone I still find the Swiss staring at me. Ive had a good look in the mirror and yes I could loose a little weight and my dress sense isn't so bad, so why all the stares?

Switzerland is a beautiful country with stunning views of mountains and lakes, surely a (slightly) overweight middle aged Engishman can't be more interesting view?

Why do the Swiss Stare? ... blah blah maybe my Ferrari can get some attention here, since I didn't realize that there's about 5 in every Swiss garage, and it takes a Bugatti to impress ... blah blah camoflage blah blah

It's probably got less to do with your dress sense than the fact that you're ugly. We don't like ugly people.

Oh yeah, I just remembered I'm not Swiss and not qualified to answer this. Whoops.

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I can't remember if this has been said already or not, but I was thinking about this the other day:

When observing someone on the street (or on the tram or bus, or wherever), how do you know that the person in question is Swiss?

I'm not Swiss, and I stare at people fairly often, most commonly because I'm listening to them speak and am wondering where they may be from. So, maybe that's it for many others also - pure curiosity and never having learned to be sly about showing it. (Btw, this "curious starting" netted me a hot bf or two, back in the day )

I recently moved to Zug and bought a Ferrari 458. I expect and like people looking at it, but alone I still find the Swiss staring at me. Ive had a good look in the mirror and yes I could loose a little weight and my dress sense isn't so bad, so why all the stares?

Switzerland is a beautiful country with stunning views of mountains and lakes, surely a (slightly) overweight middle aged Engishman can't be more interesting view?

If you are in Zug and use a Ferrari people might think you work for some "bad" company like Glencore or so... But besides that in general we still don't like people too much that show and demonstrate they are wealthy.

This tradition of hiding your wealth is somehow vanishing but still there. Has nothing to to with you weight...